The Labyrinth of Universality: Wilson Harris's Visionary Art of Fiction

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Myth of El Dorado in the Caribbean Novel -- 2 The Writer as Alchemist: The Unifying Role of the Imagination -- 3 Palace of the Peacock -- 4 The Far Journey of Oudin: A Naked Particle of Freedom -- 5 The Whole Armour: A Compassionate Alliance -- 6 The Secret Ladder: The Immaterial Constitution -- 7 Heartland: Between Two Worlds -- 8 The Eye of the Scarecrow -- 9 The Waiting Room: A Primordial Species of Fiction -- 10 Tumatumari: An Epic of Ancestors -- 11 Ascent to Omai -- 12 From The Sleepers of Roraima to The Angel at the Gate: The Novel as Painting -- 13 Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness: "Inimitable Painting" -- 14 The Tree of the Sun and Resurrection: Faces on the Canvas -- 15 Carnival and Creativity -- 16 Carnival and J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country: Ambivalent Clio -- 17 The Infinite Rehearsal -- 18 The Four Banks of the River of Space: Unfinished Genesis -- 19 Carnival, The Infinite Rehearsal, and The Four Banks of the River of Space: Ulyssean Carnival of Epic Metamorphoses -- 20 Resurrection at Sorrow Hill: Charting the Uncapturable -- 21 Obscure Sorrow Hill: Seminal Ground of Endless Creation -- 22 "Tricksters of Heaven": Visions of Holocaust in Jonestown and Fred D'Aguiar's Bill of Rights -- 23 The Dark Jester: "Unimaginable Imaginer" -- 24 The Mask of the Beggar: Transfigurative Art -- 25 The Ghost of Memory: A Meditation on the Nature of Art -- 26 "Latent Cross-Culturalities" in Harris and Soyinka: Their Creative Alternative to Theory -- 27 Ut Musica Poesis -- 28 Writing and the Other Arts -- 29 Wilson Harris's Multi-Faceted and Dynamic Perception of the Imaginary -- 30 "Numinous Proportions": Wilson Harris's Alternative to All 'Posts' -- Conclusion: Straight Lines and Arabesques -- Bibliography of Works Cited.